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MARCH 30, 2016 Portland and Seattle Volume XXXVIII No. 26 25 CENTS News ..................................3,12 A & E .................................... 6-9 Opinion ...................................2 Bids/Classifieds ....................11 Calendars ........................... 4-5 World Briefs .................. 12 CHALLENGING PEOPLE TO SHAPE A BETTER FUTURE NOW PHOTO BY CACOPHONY VIA WIKIMEDIA COMMONS (CC-BY-SA 2.50 AFRICATOWN VANDALIZED The Kevin Duckworth Memorial Dock will be moved from downtown Portland to Swan Island for use by Daimler staff and neighborhood residents. By Lisa Loving Special To The Skanner News T he Oregon State Marine Board decided Tuesday to tow the Kevin Duckworth Memorial Dock away from downtown Portland and relocate it to Swan Island for use by Daimler Corp. employees and Overlook neighborhood residents. Now located at the Moda Center, the dock was christened in honor of the be- loved Portland Trail Blazer who passed away in 2009. See DOCK on page 3 Kam Gives ‘The Wake of Vanport’ Four Stars Read the review page 8 2016 Rose Festival Court Princesses pages 6-7 James Williams and his son wait to sign up to volunteer to help at the Africantown Center for Education and Innovation in Seattle following a break in at the Center last week. The center was defaced with racist slurs and swastikas along with sustaining thousands of dollars in damage and theft to its computer systems. A former volunteer has been arrested in connection with the incident. Youth of Color Talk About Sanders A capacity crowd turned out for Senator’s event last Friday at Moda By Christen McCurdy Of The Skanner News A fter Austin Aviles got off work Friday morning, he went directly to Moda Center to hear Sen. Bernie Sanders speak. “He’s honest,” Aviles said of the Vermont senator and Democratic presiden- tial hopeful. “Even in his sentences, when he talks, everything is ‘we.’ It’s never, ‘When I become president, when I do this.’ It’s, ‘When we do this.’” Doors for the rally didn’t open until 11 a.m., and it wasn’t until 1 p.m. that the U.S. Senator and Demo- cratic Presidential hope- ful took the stage — but crowds began lining up as early as 7 a.m. to hear him speak. Ennada Lagouit, an inter- national student from Mo- rocco, left Corvallis at 6:30 a.m. with her friend and fellow Oregon State Uni- versity student, Veronica Gonzalez, to ensure they’d make it to the rally on time. “As an international student, I stand for a lot of what he says. He has a lot of international fans,” Lagouit said, adding she’s not a fan of Hillary Clin- ton, Sanders’ rival for the nomination, due to her po- sitions on foreign policy. Sanders went on to win Washington’s caucus Sat- urday and clinched victo- ries in Alaska and Hawaii the same day. Exit polls on the racial breakdown of Saturday’s caucuses are not available. Critics have noted all three states have notably smaller Black populations than the national average and that Clinton’s wins in southern states were apparently so- lidified by Black voters. On the other hand, Alas- ka and Hawaii are two of the most racially and lin- guistically diverse states in the nation, and Sanders polls well with younger voters of all races, enjoy- ing a slight edge over Clin- ton among young African Americans. According to the polling firm Edison Research, 51 percent of African Amer- ican Democratic voters aged 17 to 29 said they sup- port Sanders, versus 48 percent supporting Clin- ton. Sanders leads 66-34 among young Hispanics who are likely to support a Democrat. “For me as a young per- son and a young Black per- See SANDERS on page 3 ‘Residue Years’ Author Jackson Wins Whiting Award Mitchell Jackson talks to The Skanner about success, gentrification and what’s next for him By Arashi Young Of The Skanner News M itchell Jackson has come a long way from dealing drugs on the streets outside Jef- ferson High School in North Portland. The son of a single mom battling a drug addiction, Jackson felt the bur- den of growing up without a father while taking care of his younger brothers. After a brief stint in pris- on, Jackson devoted his life to litera- ture. He achieved a master’s degree in writing from Portland State Uni- versity and an MFA in creative writ- ing from New York University. Last week the Whiting Foundation announced Jackson’s autobiograph- ical novel, “The Residue Years,” has won the 2016 Whiting Award for Fiction. This award goes to the best See JACKSON on page 3 PHOTO BY JOHN RICARD Marine board votes on giving memorial to trucking giant PHOTO BY SUSAN FRIED Duckworth Dock: Destined for Daimler? Portland native Mitchell S. Jackson has won the Whiting Award for his novel “The Residue Years.”
